30 - Adoption of Voter-Approved Amendments to the City's Home Rule Charter

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the other in the order indicated, and the elector [voter] shall be given an opportunity to vote for either of the two propositions and thereby to vote for or against the ordinance. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 1) § 93449 Results of election. If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed initiative ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, it shall thereupon be an ordinance of the city. A referred ordinance which is not approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon shall thereupon be deemed repealed. If conflicting ordinances are approved by the voters at the same election, the one receiving the greatest number of affirmative votes shall prevail to the extent of such conflict. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 1) § 94444D Repealing ordinances; publication. Initiative and referendum ordinances adopted or approved by the voters shall be published, and may be amended or repealed by the council, as in the case of other ordinances. However, no ordinance adopted by the council or approved by the voters in response to an initiative petition shall be amended or repealed by the council within two years of the adoption, and no ordinance repealed by the council or rejected by the voters in response to a referendum petition shall be re- enacted by the council within two years of the repeal. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07; Prop. 56) § 95144 Recall; general. Any member of the city council, including the mayor, may be removed from office by recall. § 2644-2 Recall procedure. Any qualified voter living within a council district of the City of Paris may make and file with the city clerk an affidavit containing the name of the council member from that district whose removal is sought, which affidavit shall contain a statement, not to exceed 200 words, of the grounds for removal. Promptly after receipt of a recall petition, the city clerk shall serve, personally or by certified mail, a copy of the affidavit on the council member sought to be recalled. Within 10 days of service of the affidavit, the council member sought to be recalled may file a statement with the city clerk, not to exceed 200 words, in response. Recall petitions shall contain the name and title of the council member, the statement of grounds for the recall, and the response of the official, if any. If no response was filed, the petition shall so state. The clerk shall thereupon deliver to the voter making such affidavit copies of petition blanks demanding such removal. The city clerk shall keep a sufficient number of such printed petition blanks on hand for distribution. Such blanks, when issued by the city clerk, shall bear the signature of that officer and be addressed to the city council, and shall be numbered, dated, and indicate the name of the person to whom issued. The petition blanks, when issued, shall also indicate the number of such blanks issued and the name of the officer whose removal is sought. The city clerk shall enter in a record to be kept in his office the name of the voter to whom the petition blanks were issued and the number issued to said person.